Abilene, TX is located in Taylor County and is part of the 79th District of Texas' House of Representatives. The current representative for this district is Stan Lambert, a Republican who was elected in 2017. Abilene also has representation at the state Senate level with Dawn Buckingham as their current senator representing District 24. Abilene is a vibrant city with a wide variety of political issues that affect its residents. Some hot topics include public education, health care reform, economic development and job growth, immigration reform, and environmental sustainability initiatives. Abilene has been actively involved in these issues and continues to work proactively to make sure that their views are represented by their officials at all levels of government.
The political climate in Zip 79601 (Abilene, TX) is strongly conservative.
Taylor County, TX is very conservative. In Taylor County, TX 26.5% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 71.7% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 1.8% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, Taylor county remained overwhelmingly Republican, 71.7% to 26.5%.
Taylor county voted Republican in every Presidential election since 2000.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
Zip 79601 (Abilene, TX) is strongly conservative.
Abilene, Texas is strongly conservative.
Taylor County, Texas is very conservative.
Abilene Metro Area is very conservative.
Texas is leaning conservative.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index is based on recent voting in national elections, federal campaign contributions by local residents, and consumer personality profiles.
VoteWord™
Displaying 20 years of Presidential voting, visualized in one word.
Abilene, Texas: R R R R R R
How It Works:
Here at BestPlaces, we were looking at the voting patterns since the 2000 election and realized that we could express the results of each election as one letter. R if the Republican Party candidate won, D for the Democrat and I for the Independent. The six elections (2000, 2004, 2008, 2012, 2016, 2020) would be expressed as six-letter word (R R D R R).
Then we went a little further and added the dimension of magnitude. If the difference of victory was greater than 10 percent, the letter is upper case, and lower case if the difference was less than 10 percent. This allows us to see interesting voting patterns at just a glance.
Here's the VoteWord for Iowa d r d d r. In the last six elections the state has been closely contested, voting narrowly for the Republican Party candidate in 2016 and 2020 after voting for the Democratic Party in 2008 and 2012. Virginia (r r d d d D) has voted for the Democratic Party in the last three elections.
Individual Campaign Contributions in zip 79601 (Abilene)
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 183 contributions totaling $3,692 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $20 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 299 contributions totaling $436,754 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $1,461 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)